by Lisa Orchard | Jul 8, 2022 | cities, editing, planners, training, urban planning, writing
Have you ever found that when city builders use visual elements like maps or infographics to explain an idea, they’re often just a bit too complicated? That you have to do more work to interpret them than it would take you to just read about it? This happens when our...
by Lisa Orchard | Jun 17, 2022 | cities, editing, planners, technical writing, training, urban planning, writing
Here’s one example. Take this paragraph: This report provides an update on staff’s engagement with the Province to date, as directed by Council, on the Province’s multi-year process to redevelop Ontario Place and recommends entering into a “Province...
by Lisa Orchard | Jan 23, 2022 | cities, editing, planners, training, urban planning, writing
I have a serious case of cabin fever. Despite some amazing new projects to kick off 2022, I’ve been itching to do something new, outside of work. I’m a firm believer in always being a beginner at something, anything! A skill, a sport, a craft – it’s very humbling and...
by Lisa Orchard | Jan 14, 2022 | cities, planners, technical writing, urban planning
One of the best things about publishing Persuasive Writing for Planners has been getting a chance to meet so many interesting planners who are doing all kinds of inspiring things! I’m going to profile all of them in my textbook for planners over the next year and I...
by Lisa Orchard | Jan 7, 2022 | cities, planners, urban planning, writing
It was a joy to release the first in my series of writing guides for planners last week! Persuasive Writing for Planners is built on my years of experience writing and editing the full suite of documents that planners create on the job. I also brought in my years of...
by Lisa Orchard | Nov 21, 2020 | cities, planners, technical writing
It’s just over one year since I left the comfy confines of the public sector and launched Scribe TW. Truth be told, it wasn’t that comfy, but it was confining. Much as I valued the work of my colleagues in government, and was truly blown away by the intelligence and...
